Laudator

As in most speeches, exaggeration and embellishment were standard devices by which the laudator amplified his subject's virtues or vices.

To the extent that he is visible at all, the poet fulfils the role of laudator, not commentator on or representative of a world view.

When he made all those wrong decisions in his business and private life, he expected me to be a sycophant, a laudator,or a yes-man.